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Hannah, 24, 01241988, central northwestern illinois, barista, encourager, funny, and all that jazz. I love Jesus and green ice tea. It would be awesome to have fabulous hair for five years.
Hannah, 24, 01241988, central northwestern illinois, barista, encourager, funny, and all that jazz. I love Jesus and green ice tea. It would be awesome to have fabulous hair for five years.
I want to know when simply calling myself a Christian became not enough. Why the hell are there so many labels now? It’s so freaking stupid, calvinist, arminian, complementarian, egalitarian, and this and that. Honestly. If you love to debate and prove people wrong about their theology more than you actually like to love them, you have a problem. I could go on and on about this and debate it to no end. It’s RIDICULOUS. I’m raging out right now. I’m calling myself a Christian, and that’s that.
I should add: I know these labels have been around a long time. They are just REALLY popular now among many young Christians..and I still reiterate it’s stupid. When Jesus comes back it’s not going to matter what you labeled yourself as, as long as you loved him and loved people and lived like him.
Jesus is either going to say “Welcome to my kingdom, bro.” or “GTFO cause I never knew you”. He’s not going to say, “We’re you a calvinist or an arminian?” We’re you an egalitarian or a complementation?” because those labels do not fucking matter.
Yes that warranted a cuss word. Also for the record because we’re talking labels here right now I identify more with egalitarians and I’m neither a calvinist or an arminian. Yep. I said it. So what if it’s the pot calling the kettle black. It needed to be said. I won’t debate it. I will ignore any questions trying to debate me. I don’t debate. I simply live my life and love people as much like Christ as I can. The end.
Can we please stop attacking each other because we have different beliefs as Christians. It makes me so sad to see how much hatred there is and the I’m right you’re wrong attitude comes about when discussing theology here on tumblr.
It’s why I stay away from it. Theology depresses me to no end. Personally I don’t prescribe to either of the more popular theologies today, calvinism or armenisim. I don’t see the point in debating because God is God and frankly I don’t think there is any room for dualism in Christianity. Also I know next to nothing about theology. That’s my stance anyway, not up for debate. At all…so don’t try.
I’m guilty of it too. I don’t hide the fact that I have a disdain for a lot of the more popular pastors and well known Christian leaders on tumblr. I’m making an effort to stop and to keep my mouth shut because unless I have words of encouragement I don’t have room to speak.
It makes me even more sad to see people flat out accusing people of not being saved because they don’t believe the way the other person believes. Really? Do you know their heart and where they stand with God? What about your heart? What makes you so sure you are correct?
Can we just stop? Please?
